The Bullish Case For Silver Appreciation - Arithmetic, Human Nature, Supply & Demand - Home - The Daily Bail

The Bullish Case For Silver Appreciation - Arithmetic, Human Nature, Supply & Demand - Home - The Daily Bail: "What The Silver Vigilantes Understand That You Probably Don’t (Arithmetic, Human Nature and other Stuff)"

Ron Paul, Author of `End the Fed,' to Lead Panel Overseeing Central Bank - Bloomberg

Ron Paul, Author of `End the Fed,' to Lead Panel Overseeing Central Bank - Bloomberg: "Representative Ron Paul, Texas Republican and author of “End the Fed,” will take control of the House subcommittee that oversees the Federal Reserve."

Soros Gold Bubble Expanding as ETPs Hold 9 Years of U.S. Output - Bloomberg

Soros Gold Bubble Expanding as ETPs Hold 9 Years of U.S. Output - Bloomberg: "Securities and Exchange Commission filings this month by Soros Fund Management LLC, Paulson & Co. and Touradji Capital Management LP listed investments in gold as their biggest holdings. Exchange-traded products own 2,088 metric tons, equal to nine years of U.S. mine supply, data compiled by Bloomberg show. Precious metals will produce the best commodity returns in the next year, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said in a Nov. 9 report."

poorrichard's blog: 41 Facts About The History Of Central Banks In The United States That Our Children Are No Longer Taught In School

41 Facts About The History Of Central Banks In The United States That Our Children Are No Longer Taught In School

Attention Gold Bugs: The Greatest Gold Chart & History Infographic You've Ever�Seen - Home - The Daily Bail

Attention Gold Bugs: The Greatest Gold Chart & History Infographic You've Ever Seen - Home - The Daily Bail: "Attention Gold Bugs: The Greatest Gold Chart & History Infographic You've Ever Seen"

Investors Bet on Inflation, Overpaying for 5-Year Treasuries - NYTimes.com

Investors Bet on Inflation, Overpaying for 5-Year Treasuries - NYTimes.com

You chose gold bar - please insert $11,350

You chose gold bar - please insert $11,350: "BERLIN: Apart from the gold-plated exterior - and the fact that they are bulletproof - they seem much like any other vending machine. But instead of chocolate bars, a network of ''gold-to-go'' machines dispenses 24-carat bullion."

How Fake Money Saved Brazil : Planet Money : NPR

How Fake Money Saved Brazil : Planet Money : NPR: "This is a story about how an economist and his buddies tricked the people of Brazil into saving the country from rampant inflation. They had a crazy, unlikely plan, and it worked."

Obama could kill fossil fuels overnight with a nuclear dash for thorium - Telegraph

Obama could kill fossil fuels overnight with a nuclear dash for thorium - Telegraph: "If Barack Obama were to marshal America’s vast scientific and strategic resources behind a new Manhattan Project, he might reasonably hope to reinvent the global energy landscape and sketch an end to our dependence on fossil fuels within three to five years."

Bank Information | Tax US | Switz History | USB

Bank Information | Tax US | Switz History | USB: "Part 1: A UBS insider blows the whistle on Swiss banking."

Market Data Firm Spots the Tracks of Bizarre Robot Traders - Science and Tech - The Atlantic

Market Data Firm Spots the Tracks of Bizarre Robot Traders - Science and Tech - The Atlantic: "Market Data Firm Spots the Tracks of Bizarre Robot Traders"

Jun 4, 2010 Key Indicators of a New Depression Neeraj Chaudhary 321gold ...inc ...s

Jun 4, 2010 Key Indicators of a New Depression Neeraj Chaudhary 321gold ...inc ...s: "Key Indicators of a New Depression"

Asia Times Online :: China News, China Business News, Taiwan and Hong Kong News and Business.

Asia Times Online :: China News, China Business News, Taiwan and Hong Kong News and Business.: "An instrument less discussed in mainstream analysis but with long-term implications for the viability of the US dollar as the universal reserve currency, can be gleaned from the fact that in 2009 China reportedly bought 454.1 tons of gold from its domestic market, which is equivalent to nearly 50% of the total purchases of 890 tons of gold made by the world's central banks last year."

Newsmax - Sir John Templeton’s Last Testament: Financial Chaos Will Last Many Years

Newsmax - Sir John Templeton’s Last Testament: Financial Chaos Will Last Many Years: "When Sir John Templeton passed away in July of 2008, we lost one of the greatest investment minds of our time.

But with great lucidity, in June of 2005, Sir John penned a memorandum to friends and family that is uncanny and prophetic in its vision of what would happen to the U.S. and global economy.

The first two words — so pithy yet so powerful — are bolded and highlighted on his original document. They read, simply: “Financial Chaos.”"

China ready to end dollar peg - Telegraph

China ready to end dollar peg - Telegraph: "At the annual session of the legislative National People’s Congress in Beijing, Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of the People’s Bank of China, said that the days of the “special yuan” policy were numbered. He described the dollar peg as a “temporary” response to the global financial crisis, but gave no timescale for any change in policy. The currency has been pegged at about 6.83 yuan per dollar since July 2008."

Start a Rothbardian Bankrun by Joseph T. Salerno

Start a Rothbardian Bankrun by Joseph T. Salerno: "Murray Rothbard never tired of pointing out that in a free society plain citizens could bring inflationary fractional reserve banks to heel through a deliberate and concerted campaign to get people to withdraw their deposits in cash. “Antibank Leagues,” as he called them, would be formed by those “who know the truth about the real insolvency of the banking system” to “urge bank runs.” The bank runs or their very threat would “be able to stop and reverse monetary expansion.”"

Arizona may get sky-high solar towers

Arizona may get sky-high solar towers

Miami Couple Accused of Scamming Cuban-Americans In $135 Million Ponzi Scheme // Current

Miami Couple Accused of Scamming Cuban-Americans In $135 Million Ponzi Scheme // Current: "The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged a well-known Miami business man and his wife with running a $135 million Ponzi scheme that used bogus real estate investments to swindle hundreds of wealthy Cuban-Americans living in South Florida."

Banks in Calif., Ill., Fla., Texas are shut down - Yahoo! Finance

Banks in Calif., Ill., Fla., Texas are shut down - Yahoo! Finance: "WASHINGTON (AP) -- Regulators shut four banks from California to Florida on Friday, boosting to 20 the number of U.S. bank failures this year following the 140 closures last year in the worst financial climate in decades."

Danger Ahead For Small Banks - Daily Brief - Portfolio.com

Danger Ahead For Small Banks - Daily Brief - Portfolio.com: "The small banks that do much of the lending to small business face a crisis in the near future that could force thousands of them to cut back on loans."

Our debt time bomb is ready to go ka-boom Paul B. Farrell - MarketWatch

Our debt time bomb is ready to go ka-boom Paul B. Farrell - MarketWatch: "Retire? You can fuggetaboutit if the new Global Debt Time Bomb is detonated by any one of 20 made-in-America trigger mechanisms."

USGS Release: Venezuela Holds One of the Largest Oil Accumulations (1/22/2010 6:31:58 AM)

USGS Release: Venezuela Holds One of the Largest Oil Accumulations (1/22/2010 6:31:58 AM): "An estimated 513 billion barrels of technically recoverable heavy oil are in Venezuela’s Orinoco Oil Belt.

This area contains one of the world's largest recoverable oil accumulations, and this assessment is the first to identify how much is technically recoverable (producible using currently available technology and industry practices)."

Jan 25, 2010 Dude, Is That Gold Bar for Real? Casey 321gold ...s

Jan 25, 2010 Dude, Is That Gold Bar for Real? Casey 321gold ...s: "As the 10-year gold bull continues its stunning run, rumors of fakery seem to be cropping up as fast as new Eagles can be minted. Should you be worried? Do you need to run to the coin shop for a home test kit?"

One quarter of US grain crops fed to cars - not people, new figures show | Environment | guardian.co.uk

One quarter of US grain crops fed to cars - not people, new figures show | Environment | guardian.co.uk: "One-quarter of all the maize and other grain crops grown in the US now ends up as biofuel in cars rather than being used to feed people, according to new analysis which suggests that the biofuel revolution launched by former President George Bush in 2007 is impacting on world food supplies."

Swiss & Global Adds New Exchange-Traded Precious Metal Products - Bloomberg.com

Swiss & Global Adds New Exchange-Traded Precious Metal Products - Bloomberg.com: "Swiss & Global Asset Management Ltd. started exchange-traded products backed by silver, platinum and palladium."

Molybdenum prices to rise 55% in two years: JPM - MarketWatch

Molybdenum prices to rise 55% in two years: JPM - MarketWatch: "SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Prices for molybdenum, a base metal used to make stainless steel, will likely rise 55% in the next two years, JP Morgan analysts said Thursday."

Platinum to beat gold, says Goldman Sachs - Telegraph

Platinum to beat gold, says Goldman Sachs - Telegraph: "Platinum may be a better investment bet than gold, analysts at Goldman Sachs have said."

Willem Buiter warns of massive dollar collapse - Telegraph

Willem Buiter warns of massive dollar collapse - Telegraph: "The long-held assumption that US assets - particularly government bonds - are a safe haven will soon be overturned as investors lose their patience with the world's biggest economy, according to Willem Buiter."

Concern as China clamps down on rare earth exports - Asia, World - The Independent

Concern as China clamps down on rare earth exports - Asia, World - The Independent: "Britain and other Western countries risk running out of supplies of certain highly sought-after rare metals that are vital to a host of green technologies, amid growing evidence that China, which has a monopoly on global production, is set to choke off exports of valuable compounds."

Gulf petro-powers to launch currency in latest threat to dollar hegemony - Telegraph

Gulf petro-powers to launch currency in latest threat to dollar hegemony - Telegraph: "The Arab states of the Gulf region have agreed to launch a single currency modelled on the euro, hoping to blaze a trail towards a pan-Arab monetary union swelling to the ancient borders of the Ummayad Caliphate."